Changing Times
by André Téchiné
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Actor: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Gilbert Melki, Lubna Azabal, Malik ZidiDirector: André Téchiné
Brand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Koch Lorber Films
Product features:
- The inimitable talents of Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, and director Andr T chin combine in this adult romance. After 30 years, Antoine Lavau (Depardieu) seeks out his former lover (Deneuve), whom he's never been able to forget. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN Rating: NR Age: 741952308294 UPC: 741952308294 Manufacturer No: KLF-DV3082
Movie Reviews of Changing Times
Movie Review: Can true love really die?
Summary: 5 Stars
In this tale of lost love, director Andre Techine offers us the stuff of life in an uncomplicated, yet provocative presentation. I happen to be a huge fan of Techine's because he always manages to turn the every day minutiae of human relating into fascinating stories that we are compelled to watch. In this case we are asked to wonder if it's possible for two people who have loved and gone their separate ways to still feel or rekindle that love many years later.
Antoine (Gerard Depardieu) and Cecile (Catherine Deneuve) were lovers 30 years ago and had gone their separate ways. All those years Antoine maintained his love for Cecile, but Cecile went on with her life marrying twice, and is currently living in Tangier with her husband of 20 years. Antoine, having loved her so deeply, has been looking for her all those years. Yet at the same time, he's been afraid that if they met, she would reject him, and that would be too painful. Finally he gets up the nerve and finagles a job in Tangier, giving him an excuse to meet her.
Cecile rejects him at every turn, even hurting him deeply to get her point across that she doesn't love him nor does she want anything to do with him, and he finally gives up. True to the cat and mouse game of human love sometimes, it's at that point she decides the only way she will really get rid of him is to see if something is there, and she goes to him. But can it work out?
I'm not really a fan of Depardieu, however, I admit he steals the show as he renders a truly heartbreaking portrayal of a man who's so in deeply love and who's completely lost without the object of his love by his side, whether or not it is all in his head or true love. You really feel for this guy even though frankly, he borders on edge of some intensely obsessive stalkerdom. However, Techine and Depardieu manage to completely keep him not only out of the realm of creepy, but well within the range of acceptable behavior.
Deneuve and Depardieu have worked together in several movies and even though their characters are in conflict, there is a certain real comfortableness in the way they interact with each other, and one can believe that their characters shared a history together.
As in other Techine movies, the secondary characters and story lines are just as interesting to watch as the main one. The relationship of Cecile and her husband is on the verge of cracking as each have reached a point of not caring enough to sacrifice anything for the other. Cecile's husband is compelling in that he really tries to appease Cecile, yet he can never be enough, and goes to others for diversion. Cecile's son is gay and loves a Tangierian man whom he was friends with while growing up there, however, he also loves a Tangierian woman drug addict with a son and chooses to live with her in Paris.
While all of this could play out as a sorted soap opera, it's neither over dramatic nor sentimental; it's a beautiful touching film done in a very simple and poignant manner.
Summary of Changing Times
Can your first love be your last?Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu star in André Téchiné?s (Wild Reeds, Les Voleurs) film about two former lovers reunited by fate. Antoine (Depardieu) has held a torch for his first love Cécile (Deneuve) for 30 years and arranges to be reunited with her in Morocco in the hopes of rekindling their love only to find that his advances are not welcomed.
"visually alive, quick-witted and full of heart" - Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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